CORVALLIS — While you’re battling the winter blues, make your own seed-starting mix and plan for the gardening days ahead. Home gardeners can start vegetable and flower seedlings indoors from ...

Moisten your seed starting mix before you use it, and then sow your seeds according to the packet instructions. Water carefully using a mister or a watering can fitted with a very fine rose.

Compost and wood chips make an excellent team when it comes to creating a potting mix. Compost adds essential nutrients and ...

Unlike potting mixes used to grow plants for some period of time, seed-starting mixes do not need to be rich in nutrients. To start my seeds, I use a mixture of: 1 part (by volume) leaf mold; ...

Inferior seed-starting mix Just as good seed matters, so does the mix you’re planting into. Don’t scrimp on cheap bags of heavy potting soil, or worse yet, even heavier and bug/disease-laden ...

Seed starting mixes generally contain minimal or no added nutrients, and there’s a reason for that: Seeds rely on their internal nutrient stores to sprout and establish roots.

Give your garden a head start by starting your seeds indoors. When your last frost date rolls around, you'll have seedlings ready for planting in the ground.

By JESSICA DAMIANO. If you’re planning to start seeds indoors this season, you likely know you’ll need a growing medium (packaged, sterile seed-starting mix is ideal), a sunny windowsill or ...

An electric seed-starting mat, like a very gentle heating pad, may be useful if you start seeds often. Water carefully. Once seeds sprout, keep the potting mix moist but not soggy.

Seed-starting mix is popular among gardeners who enjoy starting their plants from seed. Learn if it's absolutely necessary and what you can use instead.

By JESSICA DAMIANO If you’re planning to start seeds indoors this season, you likely know you’ll need a growing medium (packaged, sterile seed-starting mix is ideal), a sunny windowsill or ...